Author resources

Guidelines for Authors 

1. General considerations 

• Authors will submit their work through the OJS platform in the following link.
• If authors wish to publish in a dossier or a special number please check the submission dates here.
• The journal publishes unpublished articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Contributions in English and Portuguese will be published in their original language and the editorial team can decide if these articles will be translated to Spanish.
• All published articles have a DOI identification number that makes easier the construction of bibliographical references, the search for articles and cross reference citations between different repositories. The DOI should be included when authors cite articles of this journal.
• Remember that your article cannot be simultaneously in evaluation in other journal.

2. Manuscript preparation

Formal guidelines

• Submissions should be written in Word format, Times New Roman size 12 font, 1.5 spacing and pages numbered in the bottom right. The document should be formatted in letter sized pages with one-inch margins.
• Footnotes should be in Times New Roman size 10 Font, single-spaced.
• Manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long, including abstracts and keywords, bibliography and footnotes, etc.
• Submissions should include a summary in Spanish, of no more than 150 words, and its translation into English. The title of the text should be presented in both languages.
• Articles should include a list of three to six key words that identify the article, which should also be presented in English and Spanish. The keywords should reflect the content of the document, and that is why it is necessary for them to indicate the exact topics of the article, showing the areas of knowledge in which they arise and the main concepts involved. 
• Articles should be written in academic language accessible to reading audiences from different disciplines.
• In a separate file, the author should include biographical information regarding: academic degrees, institutional affiliation, ORCID identification number, research group or lines of research (if applicable),  his or her two more recent  publications, and email address. The same file should include information regarding the origin of the article. If it is based on the results of research, indicate the project that it is part of and the name of the financing institution.

Editing rules 

• When using an acronym or abbreviation for the first time in your paper, please place it in capital letters between parenthesis after the complete form. Use the abbreviation in the rest of the text. (Example: United Nations (U.N.).
• Quotations that are more than four lines long should be placed in the format for long quotations, i.e. single-spaced, in font size 11, with reduced margins.
• Charts, diagrams, illustrations, photographs and maps should be referenced and explained in the text. They should also be labeled, numbered and accompanied by their respective captions and source(s). They are placed immediately after the paragraph in which they are announced. Images should be presented in high-resolution digital format (jpg or tiff 300 and 240 dpi). If an item does not meet the standards of quality requested, Latin American Law Review does not commit itself to publishing it. The author is responsible for sending proper authorization when needed.
• Footnotes should be numbered with Arabic numerals.
• Articles should have complete notes for the material cited in footnotes in a bibliography section at the end of the paper.

Citation guidelines

• LAR requests authors to use “The Chicago Manual of Style” for proper citation. Specific guidelines for using this model are in the following link.
• When reviewing citation guidelines, authors should be wary of the specific punctuation rules, italicization and other aspects referred in the manual for the correct identification of cited sources.
• “The Chicago Manual of Style” distinguishes the following type of citations that authors should take into account:
  • Complete footnote references (N)
  • Abbreviated footnor references (N.A.). Used after the first time a source is cited.
  • Complete bibliographical references (B)

Citation examples

See below some specific examples of citation that seek to help authors in the preparation of their submission. In case of doubt please review the manual. 

• Books by one author

For N citations:

Diego Eduardo López Medina, Teoría Impura del Derecho. La Transformación de la Cultura Jurídica Latinoamericana (Bogotá: Editorial Legis, 2004), 54.

For N.A. citations:

López Medina, Teoría Impura, 65.

For B citations: 

López Medina, Diego Eduardo. Teoría Impura del Derecho. La Transformación de la Cultura Jurídica Latinoamericana. Bogotá: Editorial Legis, 2004.

• Chapters or sections of edited books

For N citations:

Helena Alviar-García, “Distribution of Resources led by Courts: A Few Words of Caution.” In Social and Economic Rights in Theory and Practice. Critical Inquiries, ed. Helena Alviar-García, Karl Klare & Lucy A. Williams (London: Routledge, 2015), 69.  

For N.A. citations:

Alviar-García, “Distribution of Resources”, 70.

For B citations:

Alviar-García, Helena. “Distribution of Resources led by Courts: A Few Words of Caution.” In Social and Economic Rights in Theory and Practice. Critical Inquiries, editado por Helena Alviar-García, Karl Klare & Lucy A. Williams, 67-83. London: Routledge, 2015.

• Articles in academic journals

For N citations:

Ángela Uribe, “El lugar de la persuasión en sociedades degradadas: Sobre Albert Speer”. Revista de Estudios Sociales No. 44 (2012): 139.

For N.A. citations

Uribe, “El lugar de la persuasión”, 139.

For B citations

Uribe, Ángela. “El lugar de la persuasión en sociedades degradadas: Sobre Albert Speer”. Revista de Estudios Sociales No. 44 (2012): 137-144.

*Special note for online journals: if authors accessed the online version of an article it is essential to include the URL where the article was found. Several journals include a Digital Object Indentifier (DOI) for each article, which should be used in the citations. This URL is different from the one that appears in your browser.

These journals should be cited as follows:

For N citations:

Germán Parra Gallego, “Pandemia por COVID-19: límites al poder estatal en la configuración y acceso a las excarcelaciones por motivos humanitarios o causas médicas”. Latin American Law Review No. 8 (2022): 19-37, https://doi.org/10.29263/lar08.2022.02

For N.A. citations:

Parra Gallego, “Pandemia por COVID-19", 21

For B citations:

Parra Gallego, German. “Pandemia por COVID-19: límites al poder estatal en la configuración y acceso a las excarcelaciones por motivos humanitarios o causas médicas”. Latin American Law Review No. 8 (2022): 19-37, https://doi.org/10.29263/lar08.2022.02